Improvement in scythe-fastenings



S. B. BATOHELOR.

v SCYTHE .SNATH.

PATENTED PEBQ28, 185

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

s. 13'. BATCHE'LOR, 0F LowvILLE, NEW YORK.

l MPRO VE M VENT n SICYTHE-IL'ASTENINGS.

Specification/forming part of Letters Patent No. 10,562, dated February28, 1854.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, S. B. BATG-HELOR, of Lowville, in the county ofLewis and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Mode ofSecuring Scythes to Snaths; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full,; v clear, and exact description of the same, ret} erencebeing had to the annexed drawings,

making a part-of this specification, in which- Figure 1 isa front viewof the end of a scythe attached t-oa snath. Fig. 2 is a side view of thesame. Fig. 3 is a plan or top view of the same.

Sl'milar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in eachfigure.

This inven tion relates to .a. new and improved mode of attachingscythes to snaths, whereby scythes may be adjusted to thesnath in anexpeditious manner and set at any desired point, as will presently beshown.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, 1 willproceed to describe its construction and the manner inwhich it isoperated.

A represents the end or butt of ran-"ordinary snath,chamtered asusual,the chaml'ered side being shod or covered with a metal plate, B,

which has an opening, A, through it lengthwise the plate from near oneend to the other, the mortise being made in the snath under the platedeep enough to receive any length of claw which is on the scythe-shank,in which claw (J or bent portion at the end of the shank U of the scytheis permitted to slide up or down for the purpose of taking a longer orshorter shank-scythe, which is not the case in any scythe-fastenings nowin use, and does away with the objection of having to make a mechanicalalteration to fit the shank to the snath. It also has a screw-nutattached to the end of the plate B for the screw E to pass through. Theclaw is shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1.

1) is amovable r ingplaced around the butt of the snath, with the loweror under part made with a straight horizontal surface and enough largerthan the snath in diameter to receive is square and made tapering, onwhich a key,

F, is placed'when the screw is to be turned.

The scythe, it will be seen, is adjustable to.

the snath byplacing-theshank Of"the 'scy'me on the chamtered part ofthe.snath, with the claw O in the opening of the-metal plate-B. The ringis slipped down over the shank of the scythe. The end of the screw E isthen forced or screwed tightly against the inner side of the shank byplacing the key on square part of the screw. The shank is thus pressedtightly against the inner surface of the movable ring D. The scythe maybe set in, or our, forming an acute or right angle with the snath, asdescribed. (See red lines in Fig. 2.) The .point of the screwfheing madeof hardened steel, will consequently countersink itself into thescythe-shank and holdait firmly in the desired position.

Having thus described my invention, what I claiin as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

. The continuous rectangular slot or opening, a

in combination with the ring D and screw E, by' which I am enabled toattach any common scythe to my snath, as herein set forth.

. s. B. BATOHELOR.

Witnesses S. O. CLARK, HAZEN. WEBSTER.

